Please review (redesign completed!)

kbegola · #1 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 02:11 PM

I just would like to see what everyone thinks of my new web design. I am really pleased how it turned out. I had a very creative company complete it and I think it is what I was going for in my industry. Any thoughts/suggestions? I would love some feedback.

Thanks

http://www.titanium-buzz.com

timmathews.com · #2 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 04:26 PM

I like the new site.
It is clean, and easy to look through.
Best of luck with your venture!
Tim
PS:
Why dont you check out http://www.pickerelcreek.com and let me know what you think?
Thanks!

**crankydave** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 07:00 PM

After a quick peek...

Check the alt attribute on the cross bracelet in your header for a typo. "Braslate"

I'd add something to your "Types of Titanium" page to indicate the type(s) of titanium you are selling. Also, quick look at your rings page does not tell me what type of titanium is being used.

Word of caution... I'd remove the strip of paper ring sizing method real quick. You're simply setting yourself up for returns because the method of sizing the finger your site "endorses" didn't work.

Overall I liked the site. Easy to nav. Images look good with crisp enlagements (except carbon fiber rings blech!).

Dave

kbegola · #4 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 07:11 PM

Thanks for taking a look at my site. I will look into some of your suggestions Dave. I will rethink using the ring sizing tool.

Thanks for the comments Tim. I hope to generate more sales through the new site. as for your site it has a good look to it and is very informative. I liked how you have each section outlined and also include the prices page. The only thing that may need attention is the intro page image.

danielchan · #5 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 07:19 PM

Same here, I like the site too.

It is easy to navigate around.

Cheers, Daniel.www.sumerdigital.com

Tim · #6 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 07:57 PM

The site design looks fine and is even across the latest versions of Firefox, Netscape, IE and Opera. I only examined your index page because there are problems with it that are also present on other pages.

First off, the page was very slow to load, well over a minute in Netscape on an ADSL connection! The others browsers also had trouble, displaying nothing but whiteness for well over 15 seconds. The reason for the delay is a large number of errors. According to the W3C Validator some of your code is not utf-8 and as a result aborted the check. This error will delay the browsers too, while they try to work out what they're reading.

There are actually over 100 errors in the code including missing ALT tags (9 important ones) and loads of invalid VALIGNs amonst others.

If I were you I would convert the code to XHTML, clean it up and complete the job with informative ALT tags. Cleaning up the code shouldn't be too tricky but the site design warrants it.

Good luck.

PS. I've edited some comments out because I made an error!

danielchan · #7 (**permalink**) 12-06-2005, 12:36 AM

Hello again, I just did another browse through the site using mac/safari browser. all is good too!

cheers, Daniel www.sumerdigital.com

pagetta · #8 (**permalink**) 12-06-2005, 05:37 AM

The ring design site is very professional looking - nice colours and layout.

Timmatthews - your site is very informative but I have two suggestions...
on your splash page try using css to place the background image and use background-repeat: no repeat as on my screen it is repeating and doesn't look that great - it also means that the text isn't centre of the screen
Not a mad fan of splash pages in general myself, and as your text is dark, the bottom menu isn't all that apparent immediately - text over images is a usual design no-no. Perhaps you could put some sort of dark or light overlay on an portion of your image where the text could sit?
Other suggestion is to move your whole site to be centred on the screen. On my larger, higher res screen, sat on the left it looks quite small and squashed up against the side.

**dharrison** · #9 (**permalink**) 12-06-2005, 06:28 AM

Hi

Tiny horizontal scroll bar at 800 x 600 resolution. This just means that image needs scaling by about 10 pixels or so.

HTH

kbegola · #10 (**permalink**) 12-06-2005, 08:34 AM

thanks everyone for the reviews. this went much better than I thought. The site is in RTML because it is a Yahoo store and that is why I had someone complete the site for me. I will now wait and see if it has any good results.

timmathews.com · #11 (**permalink**) 12-09-2005, 12:07 PM

Thanks for the tips on my pickerelcreek.com site.
I hate the splash page myself, and that is what the customer had and wants to keep.
Pagetta, I will implement what you said and css the bg image.
Thanks!
;)

SnerdeyWebs · #12 (**permalink**) 12-11-2005, 10:40 AM

Really like this site. The rings are very nice indeed. I would remove the "our" from the "OUR
GUARANTEE" and just change it to "GUARANTEED" so it does not double stack.

Great Job!

philiefay · #13 (**permalink**) 12-13-2005, 12:16 AM

looks great...easy but for the links page, maybe you should have a directory seperated into different subjects.